Like you, I picked up the book you are now holding. I started reading. This was a mistake. Shortly' my head began to throb. You may be more fortunate. You may be brighter. But if so; why Can't you take a hint? A week later, recovered, one evening, I don't know why, for I had better things to do, I took this book up again, and began to re-read it. It was nearly 2 a.m. before I finished grappling with it for the second time. I had a murderous headache. I'd been right the first time. I should have stuck with PETER RABBIT.

He Awoke In A Place That Couldn't Be An acrobat, trick rider, and midget, his world was the circus. This new world of Barcui was a nightmare to him. Bare survival tried him to his limits. Yet he found one amazing compensation. On Barcui, his size was normal. He discovered that among the first men he met . . . the men who carried the deadly . . . LANCES OF NENGESDULPRAISE FOR KEITH TAYLOR'S BARD "For lovers of magic, history, and/or swashbuckling adventure, BARD is an exciting novel!" —Science Fiction Review

The voyage to Alpha Centauri usually takes years but Max Vanmore, reluctant heir to Vanmore Titanium, dares to make the journey in a ship powered by an experimental f.t.l. drive. He knows that his is in a race, a race to a distant planet where technology generates unspeakable riches. Money is at stake. Lives are at stake. But even more... Whoever wins the race will rule the future.

"... somewhere in the vast reaches of space, there may well be other universes with completely different natural laws [than in our own cosmos]." DAW Books, 1984. Mass market paperback, 1st printing. Science fiction novel where gravity is a repulsive, rather than attractive force. Prince Kernin is on a hero's journey through this strange universe. David Lake was not a prolific author of fiction, but his work was poetic and creative. He also wrote literary criticism.